Californian salt-marsh vegetation: An improved model of spatial pattern

Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-35

  Zedler, Joy B ^a,b   Callaway, John C ^a   Desmond, Julie S ^a   Vivian Smith, Gabrielle ^a   Williams, Gregory D ^a   Sullivan, Gary ^a   Brewster, Alice E ^a   Bradshaw, Brian K ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal wetland; Intertidal elevation; Landscape position; Scale; Species composition; Tidal creeks; Topographic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

SPARTINA FOLIOSA;

EID: 0033013037     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900055     Document Type: Article

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